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Otakon 2018

I am going this year after almost ten years. New venue with being in DC instead of Baltimore.
Should be a great time, got 2 Final Fantasy concerts with Uematsu attending this year.

Anyone else going?

"Fate/stay night: not really an eroge, and not really a cooking sim, but actually an RPG wherein everyone’s primary stat is “self-loathing” and the goal is to level it up beyond all the other characters."

Yeah, that is one of my prime reasons as well. And no, you can get into the concert with your registration, but it seems personal meet and greet with Uematsu + autographs required a VIP ticket that is of course, sold out. Made me sad too.

Well, I was pretty much expecting mostly GO stuff, and it's what I got. Lots of good fanart (I got myself one good Sakura one ), fantastic Jeanne artwork both regular and Alter, Nero got lots of excellent artwork, so much so that I'd daresay she was overtaking Artoria a bit, lots of Summer Lancer Tamamo.
But there were also quite a few who play JP and had superb Abigails, very few Ereshikigals and Ishtars, some Musashis. Totally had to support one girl who made Grimgar artwork, really surprised me to see any.

@Arashi - they were good guys, had about as may memes as expected. Although one guy said he wanted to avoid spoilers, but he got pretty spoilery.

I got CMI and CMII for the Swag bag, same area for the volume 1 FF Ultimania in the dealer room, it's dangerous, you can just blow hundreds walking around.

It was probably a better Fate panel than the one I went to. The audience kept interrupting and about halfway into the panel nobody was even paying attention anymore and the room was filled with chatter as the panelists talked. I did notice though that Otakon is like, a secret Gundam con. Every other panel was about gundam.

These panels need a bouncer or something to kick people out who interrupt, because there is almost always someone in the crowd who thinks he's the secret extra panelist.

He never sleeps. He never dies.

Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.